Wilhelm Schultz (watchmaker)

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Wilhelm Schultz

William Schultz (born March 27, jul. / 8. April  1854 greg. In St. Petersburg , † 19 June 1921 in Bad Wörishofen ) was a German clockmaker , author of various publications and from 1914 until his death publisher of German watchmaking Calendar .

Schultz was born in St. Petersburg as the only son of a Berlin-based master trimmers . In 1858 the family moved to Stuttgart , where Schultz attended secondary school from 1862 to 1868 and was able to graduate with several awards despite being hard of hearing . From 1868 to 1872 he learned the watchmaking trade from the court watchmaker Friedrich Martin in Stuttgart. He worked two years as a watchmaker in Frankfurt am Main and another year in Zurich and Biel in Switzerland before returning to Stuttgart in 1876. In 1879 he took over a watchmaker's business in Munich, but had to struggle with persistent health problems, so that he sold the business in the fall of 1888 and advertised for a share in a watch wholesaler or watch factory. Reinhold Stäckel , the owner and publisher of the Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , became aware of Schultz through these advertisements and in 1889 offered him a job as an editor , which Schultz accepted with great pleasure. He later became editor-in-chief and from 1914 he was also the publisher of the German watchmaker's calendar . Schultz had excellent theoretical as well as practical knowledge of his subject. His work The Watchmaker at the Workbench was reprinted many times and translated into several other languages. One of his special merits is also the improvement of the image quality in the Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , which then became one of the leading international watchmaker journals. As a confidante of Friedrich Anton Kames , who served the billionaire and watch collector JP Morgan as an art expert, Schultz visited numerous museums and watch collections around the world. Since the founding of the German Watchmakers' Association , Schultz was its second chairman, after Carl Marfels left in 1917 he became its first chairman. Due to his illness, he had to give up the chairmanship at the end of 1920 and was made honorary chairman. Schultz died during a spa stay in Bad Wörishofen.

Schultz had been married to Bertha Rittershofer since 1893. The son Herbert came from the marriage.

Publications (selection)

  • The watchmaker at the workbench: manual and reference book for pocket watch repairers .
  • Our timepieces and their treatment: Instructions for the proper treatment of pocket and room watches .
  • The clock exhibition in the Urania. In: Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung. Volume 22, 1898, pp. 472-474, 498 f., 522 f. and 579, Volume 23, 1899, pp. 112, 164 f., 194 and 249.

literature

  • Carl Marfels (ed.): Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung , No. 27, Berlin 1921.
  • Carl Marfels: Memories of Wilhelm Schultz , in: Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung, No. 28, Berlin 1921.
  • Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung (Ed.): German watchmaker's calendar for the year 1922 . Berlin 1921.
  • Friedrich Anton Kames: Wilhelm Schultz , in: The watchmaker at the workbench , 7th edition, Berlin 1924, pp. XIII – XXIII.

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personal data
SURNAME Schultz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German watchmaker and publisher
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1921
Place of death Bad Woerishofen